The Language Everyone Already Speaks

In 2019, NASA released the first-ever image of a black hole — a glowing ring of superheated gas surrounding the shadow of M87, fifty-five million light-years from Earth. Katie Bouman, the twenty-nine-year-old computer scientist who helped make it possible, sat in a campus lab at MIT and watched her screen render something no human eyes had ever seen. Her hands flew to her face. She couldn't speak.

She didn't need to. The image spoke for itself — and it spoke across every border. Within hours, that photograph appeared on front pages in Tokyo, Nairobi, Buenos Aires, and Oslo. No translation required. No interpreter needed. The heavens had declared something, and the whole earth heard it.

David understood this three thousand years before radio telescopes. "There is no speech, nor are there words," he wrote, "yet their voice goes out through all the earth." The Almighty embedded a sermon into the fabric of the cosmos itself — a proclamation that needs no language because it precedes all language. Every sunrise is a sentence. Every star field is a paragraph. The creation is constantly preaching, and every human heart, whether it knows it or not, is already in the congregation.

But Psalm 19 doesn't stop at the sky. David turns from the heavens to the Word, because creation tells us God exists — but Scripture tells us who He is and how deeply He loves us.